Eureka publishers have released a series of
Graphic Classics trade paperbacks, each
issue of which collects together comic book versions of stories, usually from a single
classic author such as Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, Jack London, and
more. And, yes, the series includes an H.G. Wells issue (#3) which has undergone three
editions, each of which has presented new black and white
Time Machine material.
My
favorite is the Wilson version (3rd edition), which has a steampunkish Eerie Comics feel and
an extended stand-alone version with ten additional pages. My
I cannot help but wonder. Will he return? It may be he was swept back into the past. Or
did he go forward into one of the nearer ages, when men are still men, but with the
wearisome problems of our own age solved? I may never know.